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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:05:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Well crafted and engaging narrative on the history of Russia during the transition from Tsarist to Communist rule.  Manages to be both highly readable and well researched.  Figes manages to give the reader a palpable feeling of the cultural transformation of a society from gritty, rural, serfdom to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9180601">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:56:38 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am so disappointed in myself that I had not read this earlier in life.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:57:27 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A very academic and very powerful argument on the economic, racial and legal reasons for the existence of urban crisis.  Centered around Detroit from 1930's though the 70's, the author lucidly shows how the past actions of government, business and citizens groups created a segregated inner city  the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9181039">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:24:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The power of this book -- a much tighter argument than Hitchens' &quot;God is Not Great&quot; -- lies in Ehrman's personal transformation via his study of the historical origins of the Bible.  Rather than cite a litany of religious wrongs, this book neatly cites the human origins of the Bible and ad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8990228">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:48:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am currently working my way though this 898 page history of the demographic importance of British settlers to creating the American identity.  This is an academic level analysis of four differently types of immigrant groups to America with regard to &quot;folk ways&quot; -- the author's catch-all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8990302">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:30:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:21:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I use this as the source for one of the most powerful criticisms of government ever written -- &quot;Politics and the English Language.&quot;  Every citizen should read this to learn that nothing in politics is inevitable.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:17:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I had thought about the theme of this book for awhile -- what explicit scientific research supports our knowledge of nutrition.  Taube answers these questions particularly in his contention that refined carbohydrates lead to a myriad of &quot;diseases of civilization&quot;.  What differentiates this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8990000">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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